The son of reputed Outfit killer Ronald Jarrett brought Frank "Tootsie Babe" Caruso back into focus again at the Family Secrets trial this week.

The younger Ronald Jarrett, who shares his father's name, explained to jurors that after his father was gunned down in 1999 in a mob hit, the younger Jarrett worked with Nick Ferriola, the son of top mobster Joseph Ferriola, to run a bookmaking operation.

Nick Ferriola explained to Jarrett that Frank Calabrese Sr. had said there were certain people you could trust in the Bridgeport/Chinatown neighborhood.

Attorney Tom Breen may have offered the best cross-examination of the trial yet when he questioned Nick Calabrese on Monday.

Breen's theme throughout his questioning was that Calabrese was either lying about being at some hits or throwing in other participants at some of the killings to increase his value as a witness to the federal government.

Breen is representing reputed top Chicago mob boss James Marcello. Calabrese put Marcello at three murders and one attempted murder.

Breen got Calabrese to admit that he could not recognize the photograph of one of the men he said he killed, Nicholas D'Andrea.

U.S. District Judge James Zagel has issued a gag order over the lawyers in the Family Secrets case.

The order, which is unusual at the federal courthouse in Chicago, comes after the attorney for Frank Calabrese Sr., Joseph "The Shark" Lopez, got into hot water for verbally bashing a few witnesses on a blog on the case.

As prosecutors played a series of secretly recorded conversations between alleged Outfit killer Frank Calabrese Sr. and his son, Frank Jr., while they were in prison, Calabrese Sr. walked out of the courtroom as one conversation began rolling.

Frank "Tootsie Babe" Caruso, an alleged member of the mob's 26th Street/Chinatown crew, hasn't gotten much attention in the media since his son went to prison nearly a decade ago for viciously beating a black teenager, who had the nerve to be in the Carusos' neighborhood.

Take for instance, a conversation in 1999 he had with two allegedly crooked cops, Anthony "Twan" Doyle and Michael Ricci, who were trying to figure out how close the FBI was to linking a 1986 Outfit murder to Calabrese Sr.'s brother, hitman Nick Calabrese.

No matter what you think of Frank Calabrese Sr.'s guilt or innocence in the Family Secrets case, anyone who reads the transcripts of the secretly recorded conversations between Frank Sr. and his son cannot escape one conclusion.